Report Confirms What Black People Have Been Saying for Years

Mainly, that they get unfairly detained by cops because of what they look like. A Columbia Law School professor concurs in a blistering new report that casts even further doubt on the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk strategy, which basically amounts to racial profiling and is ripe with abuse. Wait, it took a study to prove this? Yup.

Professor Fagan found that in more than 30 percent of stops, officers either lacked the kind of suspicion necessary to make a stop constitutional or did not include sufficient detail on police forms to determine if the stops were legally justified. The study also found that even accounting for crime patterns in the city’s various neighborhoods, officers stopped minorities at disproportionate rates.

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We all already know this. What's new? Same idea as to why they pay more attention to a swarthy man in a turban at the airport rather than a little old lady. They would be morons if they didn't. Has anyone been to the hood lately? They aren't selling brownies on the corner you know.